24 minSeason 2 • Episode 12
LatestKazuo Tengan's motives for masterminding the Final Killing Game are revealed as Ryota Mitarai decides to put an end to despair, by brainwashing all of humanity to sacrifice all negative emotions and unconditionally believe in hope. Makoto Naegi, Aoi Asahina and Kyosuke Munakata try to stop him, but their efforts are impeded by the brainwashed Future Foundation.
Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, it's a ticket to despair, because the only way to graduate from Hope's Peak Academy is to kill one of your fellow students or be one of their victims.
Writing
Twists that gut-punch even when you see them coming
Direction
Monokuma's cartoon menace vs. brutal reality whiplash
Practical Effects
Classroom executions as grotesque performance art
Megumi Ogata
Makoto Naegi (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
Kyoko Kirigiri (voice)
Kanata Hongo
Ryota Mitarai
Chiwa Saito
Aoi Asahina (voice)
Junichi Suwabe
Juzo Sakakura
Takuya Eguchi
Sonosuke Izayoi
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Kyosuke Munakata
Saki Fujita
Seiko Kimura
Rie Kugimiya
Daisaku Bandai
Mai Nakahara
Chisa Yukizome
Keiji Fujiwara
Koichi Kizakura
Kenta Miyake
Great Gozu
Hidekatsu Shibata
Kazuo Tengan
Inori Minase
Ruruka Ando
TARAKO
Monokuma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The anime compresses 30+ hour game into 13 episodes, sacrificing character depth for maximum velocity chaos.
Danganronpa helped define the 'death game' genre explosion post-Battle Royale—its bear mascot became symbolic of millennial Japanese despair.
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